English Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: As a black feminist project, this dissertation contends that late twentieth-century black diasporic literature intervenes in debates about shifts in black communal formation in the …
Year:: 2009
Contributor:: Lee, Jeannette M. (creator); Keizer, Arlene (director); George, Olakunle (reader); Murray, Rolland (reader); Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: African American literature; Postcolonial studies; Gender and Sexuality; Black Diaspora; Abjection; Melancholia; Caribbean literature; Nationalism; African diaspora; Depression, Mental
Language:: English
Collection:: English; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: In African American and black diasporic literary studies, prominent critical conversations hail love as the foundation for racial cohesion. Without adequately attending to love as …
Year:: 2016
Contributor:: Ford, Sachelle Marie (creator); Murray, Rolland (Director); George, Olakunle (Reader); Bogues, Barrymore (Reader); Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: African American Literature; Black Diasporic Literature; Affect; Nationalism; Love
Language:: English
Collection:: English; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: This dissertation undertakes an examination of the role of monolithic national ‘ordinariness’ in the fin de siècle Bildungsroman. It offers a new reading of the …
Year:: 2022
Contributor:: Stefanik, Eleanor (creator); Katz, Tamar (Advisor); Anderson, Amanda (Reader); Gandhi, Leela (Reader); Scarry, Elaine (Reader); Brown University. Department of English (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: Immigration; Nationalism; British literature; English literature; Literature and transnationalism; Eliot, George, 1819-1880; Bildungsromans; Race and Ethnicity; Postcolonial Studies; Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928; Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-1986; Bowen, Elizabeth, 1899-1973
Collection:: English; Theses and Dissertations

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Description:: My dissertation focuses on the persistence of national consciousness in postcolonial and contemporary British literatures. Theories of globalization after 1945 represent nationalism and culture as …
Year:: 2008
Contributor:: Gui, Weihsin (creator); George, Olakunle (director); Bewes, Timothy (reader); Chow, Rey (reader); Brown University. English (sponsor)
Genre:: theses
Subject:: postcolonial; diaspora; adorno; anglophone; Postcolonialism; Nationalism; Globalization; English-speaking countries
Language:: English
Collection:: English; Theses and Dissertations

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